Sentence examples for blind innocence from inspiring English sources
Such blind innocence......
It seemed that before we had lived in a kind of blind innocence, with no sense of the real dangers that lurked.
Despite everything, I too seek a guide back into the blind innocence of a childhood when the hope for the "normal" life was quite real -- and its abandonment, cruelly punished.
Malcolm X died, MLK died, civil rights workers died, three little black girls died, Bobby Kennedy died, thousands of soldiers and civilians died--the complacency and odd, blind "innocence" of the 50s died, violently, before our eyes on TV.
Neither can those blinded by the innocence of youth be distracted from the donkeys on the seafront or the now seemingly-perilous rides of Pleasure Beach.
That was, Mr. Pippin argues, James's challenge to America, which, at the turn of the century, with all its brash innocence and blind certainties, was promising a revaluation of all values.
There is always a touch of innocence, of blind hope in those who leave, as if they are filled with the certainty that they will reach the other side.
It is even more galling because thousands of fans and admirers, myself included, fervently wanted to believe in her innocence and in blind faith charged her accusers with vicious rumor mongering and character assassination to defame and destroy the reputation of a young African-American woman who stood as an intelligent, poised and successful role model to many African-Americans and young women.
This story is distasteful from a number of obvious standpoints: the student's refusal to acknowledge wrongdoing, the father's blind defense of his daughter's "innocence" and the reflexive effort to abuse power and privilege to avoid fair consequences.
Are they so hard up for a snack that they have to blind a universal symbol of youth and innocence, or are they simply evil, a quality they possibly share with these two things at the window?
